| Date |
Event |
Trail Link |
| 1693 |
Spanish Florida offers freedom to British slaves |
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| 1725 |
Fugitive blacks found living with Creeks in Florida |
 |
| 1750 |
First Seminole band forms on Alachua savannah |
|
| 1763-84 |
Seminole country becomes destination for black runaways |
|
| 1812 |
John Horse born |
|
| 1812-13 |
Patriot War: Blacks and Seminoles repel Georgian
invaders |
 |
| 1816 |
U.S. blows up Negro Fort |
|
| 1817 |
1st Seminole War officially begins |
|
| 1825 |
Abraham emerges as leader |
|
| 1832 |
Treaty of Payne's Landing initiates removal crisis |
|
| 1835 |
2nd Seminole War begins |
|
| 1838 |
Blacks Seminoles surrender under promise of
freedom |
|
| 1838 |
Black Seminoles emigrate West with Seminole Indians |
|
| 1844 |
Creeks try to kidnap Black Seminoles in the Indian
Territory |
|
| 1845 |
New treaty keeps Seminoles under Creek jurisdiction |
|
| 1848 |
U.S. "returns" Black Seminoles to slavery |
|
| 1849 |
200 Seminole allies flee to Mexico where slavery is outlawed |
|
| 1850 |
Mexico gives Black Seminoles own name,
los mascogos |
|
| 1851-54 |
Seminole allies protect Mexico from Apaches & Comanches |
|
| 1851-59 |
Texas slavers try to capture Black Seminoles in Mexico |
|
| 1859 |
Black Seminoles move to Laguna de Parras |
|
| 1864 |
John Horse serves as colonel in Mexican Army |
|
| 1870 |
Impoverished blacks cross to Texas, seek return to Oklahoma |
|
| 1870 |
Army musters Seminole Negro Indian Scouts in Texas |
|
| 1872 |
Scout company forms at Fort Clark |
|
| 1872-1914 |
Scouts' families settle on Las Moras Creek in
Brackettville |
|
| 1873-81 |
Scouts help pacify West Texas frontier |
|
| 1877 |
John Horse returns to Nacimiento |
|
| 1881 |
Scouts lead last major Indian raid in Texas history |
|
| 1881 |
Nacimiento grant is threatened |
|
| 1882 |
John Horse travels to Mexico City to protect grant |
|
| 1882 |
John Horse dies |
|
| 1887 |
Porfirio Diaz protects the Nacimiento land grant |
|
| 1914 |
Last Scouts disbanded, families forced from Fort
Clark |
|
| 1919 |
President Carranza recognizes Mascogos' rights to Nacimiento |
|
| 1938 |
President Cardenas grants Mascogos more land at
Nacimiento |
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